Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-13

Decorative hair pins have gained wide
| spread favor. =.
Scarf pins are popular with women as
we'll as men.
Tan-colored stockings are popular
with many ladies for house wear.
Removable hoods, fastened with silk
cord, are worn with tailOr-made dresses
in the street.
English frocks of white corduroy are
worn by small girls at daytime parties
and dances.
A dress OF navy-blue serge is simply
make with gathered skirt and full bod
/ ice, q red silk sash tied loosely at the left
| side being the only accessory.
Square side pockets are now very fire.
quently added to the bodice's Of last win
| ter's make, which were cut excessively
high on the hips.
The fashion of low inner bodices, with
! the outer waist of transparent material,
! high in the neck and with hslf-easy
sleeves, is returning and promises to be
! popular.
! One STYLE of wearing the veil at present
! is to have it we'll over the chin, drawn up
| somewhat at each side and fastened very
| high at the back.
| Pointed gimp above a band of astra-
! khan or of the long-waved Russian lamb
| skin is fashionable trimming for Cheviot
dresses. White cheviOt dresses ere worn
| in the house.
| great many Irish poplin suits are
made. An attractive dress of this mate
! rial for an avening at home is of pink,
prethly trimmed with Orleans lace. All
wooden fabrics, camels' hair, bison cloth
cloth, Chevlots and tWilled goods are in
great demand.
New white wool camels' hair el5atross
and imperial serge fabrics, for dressY
spring gowns, will be trimmed with
heavy watered ribbon, one and quarter
inches wide. This will be placed in rows
upon the overdresS, both front and back.
There is Just Bow something of rage
in the fashionable world for individual
lights on the dinner table. For this pur-
pose come miniature lamps, with fancy
bowls and colored shades and tiny can
dlesticks of silver, copper or wrought
iron.
Corsages are extremely varied, as well
fol day as for evening dresses. Corse-
lets are much worn, the waist below the
shoulders being plain and tight, and
shirred on the front with soft puillngs or
folds over the bust; these, however, are
best adapted to slim figures.
The fancy for wearing ribons in the
neck and sleeves instead of linen huds
prompt response in the shops where
ruchings ere shown on the edge of which
Is sewn narrow ribbons of All colors. The
taste for colored ruchlng grows and IL ia
shown in all shades, to contrast with or
exactly match the costume.
China Grape without ulster Is made up
into handsome dinner dresses for lndica
in mourning, which are trimmed with
pa lsementerie and pendants OF dull jet,
and II lace is admissible the point Dies
prt Is used with fine dots and feather
edges like those on ribbons, or rlAr with
scallcps; entire dresses are made OF thn
piece lace with these line dots, which is
preferred by many to the beaded nets.
The velvet capotr, trimmed either with
wings or with knots of velvet ribbon, is
very popular just now for general wear,
ana really seems to be the staple article
in head gear, being selviceable at all
times. Fancy feathers for millinery use
are somewhat passe; how much of this is
due to the efforts of the .ubudon Society
it would be hard to say, but the influence
Of that league has undoubtedly had some
thing to do with 1t.